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Alpha TextbooksAmerican Home-School Publishing
Beloved BooksBookpeddlerBright Ideas Press
Builder Books By Way of the Family

Children’s BooksChinaberryClassical Home EducationCurriculum ConnectionDiscount Home School Supplies Elijah Company Exodus BooksGeography Matters The Hedge SchoolHomeschool ClassifiedsHomeschoolmasterHome4SchoolGear Home School Emporium Home Training ToolsInklings BookshopJonathan’s Journey Judaica for Kids Kunker Hill Publications

Lifetime Books and Gifts Living Learning Books MainStreetBookendsMemoria Press Miami PhillipsNothing New PressPaidea Classics Peace Hill PressPfeiffer House MusicThe Phunny Farm Queen Homeschool SuppliesRainbow Resource CenterR.O.C.K Solid, IncSchola Latina Shaklee/AirSource ProductsShekinah Curriculum CenterTimberdoodle Tree of Life

Usborne books by Samantha Alvarez
Usborne Books by Janene Gerl
Usborne Books by Rebecca Innocenti
Usborne Books by Sue RutterUsborne Books by Kathi Strangfeld
Usborne Books by Nadette Waligorda (Usborne World)
Usborne Books by Shelly WandUsborne Books by Kim WalshUsborne Books by Lisa ZagarpurValerie’s Living Books Veritas Press


Alpha Textbooks offers resources for students or for entire schools. Shipping throughout Canada!

American Home-School Publishing offers a wonderful catalog of history, Latin, Greek, and reading resources.

Beloved Books offers used “living books” and “life-building audio resources.”

Bookpeddler offers a wide variety of homeschool resources: Charlotte Mason, Saxon, Greenleaf, and more.

Bright Ideas Press offers resources for science, history, and geography.

Builder Books, owned by Bob & Patty Alberg, has been evaluating and selling home school materials since 1983. They ship by mail order, Internet and also have a store in Lynnwood, Washington.

By Way of the Family, in St. Paul, offers discounted curricula for home schoolers.

Children’s Books in South Carolina offers great discounts. Visit their website for a catalog and information, but order by phone.

Chinaberry carries a fascinating selection of books, story tapes, games, puzzles, and “treasures.”

Classical Home Education offers a diverse collection of quality homeschooling products from a wide array of publishers.

Curriculum Connection offers “homeschool supplies at discount prices.”

Discount Home-School Supplies offers deep discounts on supplies and books as well as on popular curricula (Alpha Omega, Saxon, etc.)

The Elijah Company has been in business for twelve years; visit the website to order a catalog from this highly-regarded family bookseller.

Exodus Books in Oregon City, Oregon is run by a home school graduate!

Geography Matters offers ideas, projects, and supplies for teaching geography.

The Hedge School: Curricula and books for Catholic parents who home school and afterschool, along with diagramming
resources for everyone.

Homeschoolmaster.org sells homeschooling supplies including microscopes, dissection materials, and labware.

Homeschool Classifieds has hundreds of listings from individuals wanting to buy or sell curriculum.  Listings are free, instantly posted, arranged by title and category, and kept up-to-date.  The site also carries used biographies, histories, and devotional books (with cover scans) at great prices.

Home4School Gear offers many of the items recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.

Home School Emporium, from the Leggewie Family, includes many resources and specializes in historical fiction by G.A. Henty.

Home Training Tools sells science curriculum, supplies, kits, books, etc., at good prices. They have everything from microscopes down to lab items under a dollar. For the various science curricula they sell, they offer pre-assembled packages of needed lab supplies.

The Inklings Bookshop, in Lynchburg, Virginia carries resources for classical Christian education and takes online orders.  You can find them at 1206 Main St., Lynchburg, VA 24504, phone 434-845-2665.

Jonathan’s Journey, written and sold by Katherine Bell, gives a “big picture” survey of the Bible.

Judaica for Kids (”Cool Stuff for Jewish Kids”) offers educational materials and books as well as toys, games, and other items.

King David’s Harp offers resources for the study of ancient music.

Kunker Hill Publications provides the Keepers at Home household organizer for busy moms.

Lifetime Books and Gifts is the Farewell family business; they offer a wide variety of books, including many in the classical curriculum.

Sandi Strenkowski’s Living Learning Books is a science curriculum-activity guide based on Well-Trained Mind recommendations.

MainStreet Bookends is a Warner, NH bookstore and art gallery that supports local artists and authors as well as offering books, toys, games, art supplies, and more.  It’s run by the homeschooling Nevins family.

Memoria Press, founded by the author of Latina Christiana, publishes several courses in Latin, logic, rhetoric, and classical studies.

Miami Phillips offers “Project Coaching for You and Your Business.” E-mail coach@miamiphillips.com, or call (404) 597-6000 (Dallas, Georgia); a free newsletter is available by e-mailing WeeklyWisdoms-subscribe@topica.email-publisher.com

Nothing New Press is Christine Miller’s family business, publishing texts for classical Christian homeschoolers.

Paidea Classics is an Orthodox publishing company that publishes “literature from the past” for home schooling families –
their website has free texts for downloading as well.

Peace Hill Press publishes history, science, and language resources for classical educators.

Pfeiffer House Music offers homeschool music curricula for Kindergarten through Fourth Grade.

The Phunny Farm offers free unit studies for home school families: music history units, supplementary units to the Beautiful Feet Holling C. Holling study science units, and more coming soon.

Queen Homeschool Supplies specializes in Living Books for all ages in all subjects, Nature Journals & Notebooks, Literature-based Unit Study Guides, Games, and products that reflect a Charlotte Mason style of learning.

Rainbow Resource Center, run by Bob and Linda Schneider, offers lots of WTM-recommended resources (and much more) at a discount.

R.O.C.K Solid, Inc. is a Christian supplier of both books and home school supplies.

Schola Latina offers Latin curricula, focusing on introductory-level texts.

Shaklee/AirSource products are sold by home school mom Shelly Phillips “Vitamins & supplements AirSource 3000 – the natural way to stop allergies, asthma and molds!”
shelly@healthytouch.info
And also by homeschool mom Bobbie Sage at Shaklee.net/sage

Shekinah Curriculum Cellar has a huge selection of books and supplies and features same-day shipping for orders placed before 3 PM.

Timberdoodle has great science, art, history, sewing and sign language resources (and more).

Tree of Life School specializes in classical education; offers classical texts as well as the option of a personalized classical program for your family.

Valerie’s Living Books is a resource for those looking for older and out-of-print books.  Valerie also has her own list of home school booksellers.

Veritas Press, the Detweiler family business, offers classical materials for home and school.

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